BUFF

Rust implementation of float compression for VLDB 2021 paper Decomposed Bounded Floats for Fast Compression and Queries video. All BUFF-related implementations are included in the database folder. As BUFF query relies on bit-vector operations, we included a popular bit-vector implementation roaring-rs bitmap and our own implementation bit-vec.

Compile

This compile uses the cargo nightly channel.

Quick start:

cd ./database
cargo +nightly run --release  --package buff --bin comp_profiler ./data/randomwalkdatasample1k-1k buff-simd 10000 1.1509

The code sample above parses a CSV file, encodes file with BUFF, and executes equality, range, aggregation, materialization queries on BUFF encoded data chunk with SIMD enabled. To use the scalar version, please replace "buff-simd" with "buff".

BUFF highlights

BUFF not only reduces storage requirements but also enhances query performance:

• Fast compression throughput and better compression ratio.
• Query-friendly compression (fast filtering and aggregation execution).
• Adaptive SIMD acceleration.
• Supporting materialization with variable precision as requested.
• Approximate query processing.
• Outlier handling.